Thyatira: the church that tolerated Jezebel

Full Rev 2:18–29. Title echo: "eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass" (2:18) re-cites Rev 1:14–15 exactly. City history: dyers' guild city (Lydia of Acts 16, "a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira"). Commendation: works, love, faith, ministry, patience, and growing in good works ("thy last works are more than the first", 2:19). Rebuke: tolerating "the woman Jezebel," a self-styled prophetess who "teacheth and seduceth" into fornication and idol-meat (2:20). Promise: authority over the nations (Ps 2 echo) + "the morning star" (2:28).